Cover Mondrian Singapore Duxton rings in the holidays with special menus and experiences across its various dining venues throughout November and December 2025 (Photo: Mondrian Singapore Duxton)
Mondrian Singapore Duxton rings in the holidays with special menus and experiences across its various dining venues throughout November and December 2025 (Photo: Mondrian Singapore Duxton)
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From ‘Mean Girls’-themed parties to Italian feasts and fortune-telling, Mondrian Singapore Duxton rewrites the festive playbook with wit, champagne and zero reverence for tradition
You’ve been thinking that the year-end holiday season in Singapore is starting to look the same: dinner with friends at home, gift exchanges, Love Actually on repeat and maybe, several bottles of red. Safe and predictable. Then, your interest piques when you catch wind of what Mondrian Singapore Duxton is proposing: a season that trades tradition for mischief, reverence for wit, and polite celebration for something more entertaining.
This is a hotel that has never particularly cared for convention. Its reimagined shophouse design nods to heritage while housing a contemporary art collection and a rooftop view of the city skyline. So when Mondrian talks about the holidays, expect less Silent Night, more chaotic neutral.
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A Christmas adventure
Above In December, Jungle Ballroom hosts a Christmas party that pays tribute to the 2004 rom-com classic ‘Mean Girls’ while Christina’s welcomes all ugly sweater wearers to its establishment for afternoon tea (Photo: Mondrian Singapore Duxton)
In December, Jungle Ballroom hosts a Christmas party that pays tribute to the 2004 rom-com classic ‘Mean Girls’ while Christina’s welcomes all ugly sweater wearers to its establishment for afternoon tea (Photo: Mondrian Singapore Duxton)
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The festivities begin at Jungle Ballroom, where the spirit of Christmas gets a knowing wink and a Hendrick’s Gin partnership. On November 27, artist and self-proclaimed “GlitterQueen” Polina Korobova leads a guest shift that sets the tone for Thursday ladies’ nights throughout the season, featuring free-flow classic gin and tonics, lychee martinis and a dress code that might win you a complimentary suite stay. On December 18, things become more unhinged with So Fetch, a Mean Girls-themed Christmas party that Gretchen Wieners would herself have made happen. Dress codes matter, too, with bigger prizes awaiting the best-dressed. And the free-flow cocktails keep coming.
Downstairs, Christina’s commits fully to the bit with its month-long “Ugly Sweater” Festive Afternoon Tea. So put on your tackiest knit and settle in for a mid-day munch of festive sweets, such as maple-roasted pecan tart and lychee and raspberry entremet, washed down with Santa’s Hot Chocolate or spirited pairings from Hendrick’s and Monkey Shoulder. It runs every Friday to Sunday, starting December 5, from 2pm to 5pm, though the festive cocktails are available separately throughout November and December for those who prefer them without dessert.
Up at Canyon Club, festive cocktails are served poolside with a generous dash of skyline view throughout both months. It’s champagne by the water on a sun-soaked afternoon with the pleasure of celebrating somewhere not indoors.
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Above Italian restaurant Bottega di Carna, located on the third floor of the hotel, will serve festive set menus throughout dinner as well as a Christmas brunch complete with live stations and free-flow wines and cocktails (Photo: Mondrian Singapore Duxton)
Italian restaurant Bottega di Carna, located on the third floor of the hotel, will serve festive set menus throughout dinner as well as a Christmas brunch complete with live stations and free-flow wines and cocktails (Photo: Mondrian Singapore Duxton)
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For a more substantial dining experience, Bottega di Carna channels an Italian Christmas across multiple menus throughout December. The Festive Set Dinner offers three courses—orecchiette con ragù di maiale (spicy pork sausage pasta and spinach), wild-caught snapper with Jerusalem artichoke and asparagus and Black Angus rib-eye with chocolate wine jus. On Christmas Eve, the menu expands to five courses with roasted chestnut soup, pork cotechino with lentils and caramelle pasta, a choice between Spanish mackerel with saffron beurre blanc or USDA Prime fillet mignon with Barolo wine jus, and Ciliegie, a vanilla bavarois with kirsch cherry and chocolate cream for dessert.
Christmas Day turns into a feast over brunch, where there’s free-flow Veuve Clicquot, wines and cocktails to pair with the spread offered across several live stations. Think: foie gras, Italian-style roasted pork belly, grilled Black Angus bone-in rib-eye, slow-roasted turkey, Parmigiano cheese wheel mac and cheese, salmon coulibiac, cotechino with lentil and honey-glazed champagne ham with pineapple. Desserts are just as plentiful—from traditional panettone and log cakes to pecan nut tart and bread and butter pudding. No one’s leaving hungry.
The restaurant’s Boxing Day Brunch, happening the next day, extends the festivities. Expect burratina cheese with peach and aged balsamic, fritto misto, then a choice of charcoal-grilled beef with herb-crusted potato and red wine jus, grilled seabass with saffron beurre blanc or roasted turkey breast with chestnut and truffle jus. The desserts echo Christmas Day, but also include a chestnut Mont Blanc—all served with wines, cocktails and champagne on free flow.
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A sprinkle of fortune-reading
Above On New Year’s Eve, fortune tellers will descend on the hotel and provide readings for guests at several of its establishments (Photo: Mondrian Singapore Duxton)
On New Year’s Eve, fortune tellers will descend on the hotel and provide readings for guests at several of its establishments (Photo: Mondrian Singapore Duxton)
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As the year draws to a close, Mondrian Singapore Duxton decides it wants to tell your fortune. With the theme, “Reading into the New Year”, the hotel is transformed into something between a mystical parlour and a midnight hang-out.
At Bottega di Carna, a tarot reader from The Circadian Magicks moves between tables during the five-course New Year’s Eve dinner. Christina’s hosts Ling The Palmist alongside free-flow wines, beers, themed cocktails and champagne. Canyon Club brings in Mary Grace, a natal chart reader, for poolside horoscopes. And finally, Jungle Ballroom transforms into The Oracle’s Den, where fortunes are tucked into bespoke fortune cookies.
The Mondrian Singapore Duxton’s approach to the holidays isn’t one for the mundane or traditional, but for anyone who can appreciate wit, irreverence or simply a good time.
Visit the Mondrian Singapore Duxton website to learn more.
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Images: Mondrian Singapore Duxton
Chong Seow Wei is a regional senior editor covering business, innovation, impact and people. Based in Singapore, she oversees content for Gen.T, Tatler’s platform for promising entrepreneurs and new-generation leaders, and its Power & Purpose vertical.
